Cushioned horseshoe



No. 620,878. Patented Mar. I4, |899. H. E. BAUER.

GUSHIONED HORSESHOE.

(Application led Sept. 19, 1898;)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

HERMAN E. BAUER, OF MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN.-

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 620,878, dated March14, 1899. Application led September 19, 1,898. Serial No. 691,333. (Nomodel.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN E. BAUER, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Marshfield, in the county of Wood and Statel of Wisconsin,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CushionedHorseshoes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description thereof.

My invention has for its object to provide simple economical cushionedhorseshoes that may be reset or ealked. Therefore said inventionconsists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination ofparts, here inafter particularly set forth, with reference to theaccompanying drawings, and subsequently claimed.

Figure l of the drawings represents a plan view of one of my improvedhorseshoes having the cushion portion thereof' half broken away; andFig. 2, an elevation of the shoe, partly in section, the same beingindicated by line 2 2 in the preceding iigure.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A represents a malleable-metalhorseshoe having the whole of its upper face on the same horii zontalplane and provided With an upwardlyextending outer iiange b, that iscontinuous from one heel end to the other of said shoe. Supported on theanged upper face of the shoe is a parallel cushion B, the material inthis cushion being preferably a good grade of elastic rubber. There isno union of the shoe and cushion; but the nails employed to fasten saidshoe to a hoof of a horse pierce said cushion and hold it in place. Thecushion is simply a flat layer of rubber in the shape of the metal shoe,upon which it rests inside the upwardly-projecting iange.

The shoe herein shown is provided With a toe-calli and heel-calks,although these calks may be omitted, as is sometimes the case.

The shoe being made of malleable metal, such as steel or Wrought-iron,and not fast to the cushion, it may be reset or calked, or both, at anytime without detriment to said cushion, the latter being designedtovoutlast more than one shoe.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

A malleable-metal horseshoe having the whole of its upper face on thesame horizontal plane and provided with an upwardly-extending outerflange, together with a cushion consisting of a iat layer of rubberconform ing in shape to the shoe, this cushion being laid upon thecorrespondingly-Hat upper face of the shoe out of union with the samewithin the confines of the flange thereof to have contact with the hoofto which said shoe is applied, the latter and said cushion being held tosaid hoof by nailing.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, atMarshiield,in the county of IVood and State of Wisconsin, in thepresence of two Witnesses.

HERMAN E. BAUER."

y Witnesses:

E. C; PoRs, W. G. Pons

